The Dutiful Kid Who Saved the Villainous Family - Chapter 3

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Episode 3

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Airi had valiantly broken through the powerful maids and successfully entered the grand room of Ortejo Castle!

However, unlike her tremendous ambition to “become a hero and save the world.”

She had been trapped for over ten hours in white bread-like clothing called a “demonic energy blocking suit.”

“We’re wrapping you up tight so you won’t be consumed by demonic energy.”

“…?”

“We’re also attaching magical tools all over your body….”

She looked like a snowman, round and plump, only able to roll her eyes around.

The muscular maids surrounded Airi and clumsily adjusted her appearance with their awkward hands.

Muttering things like “She’s too small” and “Ugh, I don’t know how to handle her” as a bonus.

Then, the Head Maid, the only one here who could communicate properly, knelt on one knee and spoke as if upset.

“Your immunity is weak, so we have no choice. I’m sorry, young miss. If we had been prepared, we would have brought better magical tools….”

Wait a minute.

Airi looked at her with trembling eyes.

‘I’m weak? I even went to Kukkiwon.’

I’m the best among nine-year-old colored belts, even acknowledged by the Taekwondo Dojo instructor!

“I, I am strong.”

But Airi’s cry didn’t seem to reach them.

And so Airi’s body was wrapped round and round in the white, circular clothing.

Her arms and legs were also tightly bound.

Only her face stuck out.

Then, a maid who had been looking in the mirror with her roughly tore open her shirt and exclaimed.

“Damn! You’re too cute! Little Round One!”

…?

‘Little Round One is supposed to be me?’

Airi could only roll her eyes to look at the maid.

She was beating her chest like a gorilla.

She didn’t even seem to know what she had said.

Looking at such maids with somewhat bewildered eyes, Airi gazed into the mirror.

‘I know what this is.’

The white rice cake that Grandmother from her previous life used to make diligently!

That’s right.

Airi had become a round rice cake.

“Um, can’t you untie this for me?”

“No, we cannot.”

Thump.

Airi’s pupils shook with great shock.

‘Why…?’

“The others don’t wear this bread-cake.”

“Br, bread-cake… you say?”

“Yes.”

Bread-cake. A compound word of bread and cake that Airi had just created.

The maids didn’t know, but originally children had the ability to freely combine and use words.

Airi spoke seriously.

“Why do I have to wear something that everyone else doesn’t wear?”

“Well….”

Could it be that Airi was being bullied here?

The textbook said you shouldn’t ostracize friends….

Airi clenched her fists tightly and muttered quietly.

“Please speak honestly. I’m not a weak child who gets hurt by such things.”

She spoke seriously, but the expressions of the surrounding maids became strangely peculiar.

Regardless, as she tensed her body with all her might.

The Head Maid, who had been staring intently at Airi, took a deep breath and carefully recited.

“It’s because Lady Airi is not an immune one.”

“Immune one…?”

“Yes, an immune one.”

The maids looked at Airi with pitying expressions.

Airi blinked her eyelashes as she listened to the explanation about “immune ones.”

“I understand. Because I’m not an immune one, I have to wear these bread-cake-like clothes, and I absolutely have to go back in a week….”

Now everything made sense.

Airi was different from the Northern Region people.

So unlike a hero, she had to be wrapped round and round in swaddling clothes like a newborn.

Airi curled her body up even more round like a bean and muttered.

“I understand, I’m fine.”

Because a great hero doesn’t get discouraged by just something like this.

She was nine years old, not five.

So she didn’t want to show a weak appearance.

“So everyone can leave now.”

The maids and servants tried to comfort Airi, then sighed deeply and left, closing the door.

They seemed to think Airi would be discouraged.

‘I won’t be discouraged! I’m a colored belt!’

A cool 2nd dan colored belt who absolutely won’t be discouraged by such trivial matters!

Airi looked into the air with sharp eyes.

Then she took out the memo pad where she had written what she needed to do at this Ortejo Castle.

[Airi’s Ultimate Goal]

Eat lots and lots of delicious food with Grandmother!

※ Super happy!

※ Lots of grass! Lots of greens! Lots of turkey meat!

[To do that?]

I have to save the world. So that Grandmother, whom I love most in the world, won’t die.

[How?]

The bad “demonic energy” of the Northern Region.

Get rid of it all!

[Method?]

I don’t know well. But they said it works if I touch it!

Airi tried to clench her fist tightly.

But it slipped away.

‘Hng, my hand.’

…Perhaps because she was trapped in the bread-cake, her head felt dizzy.

Airi let out a big sigh.

Still, she had entered Ortejo Castle.

Somehow she felt a little excited.

Airi covered herself with the fluffy blanket and curled up a little.

‘I miss Grandmother.’

When Airi curled up her body to sleep, Grandmother always hugged her tightly.

But today was the first day in her life sleeping without Grandmother.

Neither the grandmother from her previous life, nor the grandmother from this life was here.

Lying down on the cold bed, she felt like her heart had become an empty tin can.

‘But if I’m a hero, I have to endure it.’

Airi cheerfully rolled up her blanket into a round bundle.

And so, one night at Ortejo Castle passed.

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The next day, at the Northern Monster Boundary Frontline.

News of Airi’s arrival had also reached the monster front lines.

“Lord Ortejo, congratulations!”

“What. All the monsters are dead? Going home again?”

“That’s not it! There are monsters right in front of us.”

“Ah.”

Grand Duke Declann Ortejo vigorously slashed down an elephant-type monster that had approached right up to his nose.

The man who had been looking at his master as if he were heartless.

Raspen Marquess, the chief aide who coordinated his work as the Grand Duke’s closest confidant, smiled brightly once again.

“Lady Airi has visited the Northern Region! I don’t know why she came, but shouldn’t you go see her right away?”

An ordinary father would be delighted that his daughter had come.

But Grand Duke Ortejo was different.

His expression twisted.

“My daughter came?”

“Yes, she’s preparing for an audience with Lord Ortejo!”

“What for. Why is my daughter coming to a land where she’ll soon die.”

“Well, the thing is. She says she absolutely must have an audience with Lord Ortejo…”

He waved his arm carelessly with an utterly annoyed expression.

“Tell her to go back. Tell her to go to her grandmother, that I won’t see her.”

She was a child who had grown up preciously in the arms of her maternal grandmother.

In contrast, Declan’s body had accumulated countless amounts of demonic energy.

Among the five stages divided according to that degree, he had reached the most serious state of 5-star.

An ordinary human would go berserk and die just from reaching 3-star.

Upon reaching the 4-star stage, even immune ones with powerful abilities would emit demonic energy at the level of monsters.

And…

5-star, completely consumed by demonic energy.

It was like a human becoming demonic energy itself.

A level where even immune ones found it difficult to endure staying by his side.

He was barely maintaining his life thanks to his powerful magic and explosive abilities.

If faced with such a person, a young child who was a non-immune would die immediately.

So he would never touch her, and wouldn’t even give her a glance.

After the child was born and entrusted to the Southern Region.

Even the letters he had written staying up every night…

He had never given them because his hands had touched them.

They had to become non-existent to each other.

“…Contact the Southern Region to find out why she came. And tell the child to stay tucked away in a corner. Like a small, precious bean.”

“Yes? What does staying tucked away like a small, precious bean mean?”

“And after one week, no, 168 hours, roll her round and round and send her back to the Southern Region.”

“Roll her round and round?”

“Yeah.”

Raspen, who was writing down the phrase “roll round and round,” made a puzzled expression.

But Declan was firm.

He didn’t know the child’s face.

He only knew the body that had been wrapped up well like a roughly round bean, which he had glimpsed right after birth.

So to him, the child was just a round bean.

But it was different for Raspen.

“Rolling a child round and round would violate child protection laws.”

“…Whatever you do, just keep that bean out of my sight.”

After roughly barking the order, he turned his head.

‘She said she’d leave after a week. Then I can just eliminate monsters here for one more week before returning.’

The face of a child who had grown up to be five years old.

How much the round body had stretched vertically.

He wasn’t curious about such things.

There would be no occasion to find out either.

That is, unless the child caused some major incident.

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